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GottaLaff , to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️😂In other news, via Bloomberg:

started hiring back some of the almost 500 members of its Supercharging team that CEO Elon dismissed last month.

weilawei ,
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@GottaLaff I hope they asked for triple their previous salaries.

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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A wargame simulated a 2nd Trump presidency. It concluded NATO would collapse. https://www.businessinsider.com/a-wargame-simulated-a-2nd-trump-presidency-it-found-nato-would-collapse-2024-5

weilawei ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot This is what happens when we let Putin install Trump into the US presidency. I don't think Putin has NATOs best interests at heart.

GottaLaff , to random
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No pay wall.

"Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups

After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles have been quietly reorganizing and ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook." https://www.wired.com/story/extremist-militias-are-coordinating-on-facebook/?bxid=5be677284b2ef40b1e6d155f&cndid=42353131&esrc=bx_multi1st_dailyext&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050224

weilawei ,
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@GottaLaff The paywall loads after a few seconds. Dark pattern on their part.

I understand why it wouldn't look like that on yours (presumably to do with the URL parameters and cookies you have set in your browser and email client), but it is in fact paywalled.

weilawei ,
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@GottaLaff Yeah, I really don't like all the various new tricks companies are doing to temporarily hide paywalls and later spring them on people.

weilawei , to random
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"But a March 27 comment on the document, by a Google employee requesting an executable copy of the contract, said the signatures would be “completed offline as it’s an Israel/Nimbus deal.” Google also gave the ministry a 15% discount on the original price of consulting fees as a result of the “Nimbus framework,” the document says."

They don't want to leave a trail for their AI-powered genocide, strange that.

weilawei , to random
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It's impressive that Russia is so deeply entrenched in our government, we can't even arrest sitting politicians who we know take money from them as they vote to undermine US aid to Ukraine and badmouth the idea of NATO and allies.

Ailantd , to random
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Outside radiation sensors burn out quickly and must be replaced every month.
Life expectancy is short for those who do it, so they are not exactly volunteers, but rather selected from among the surviving architects of the Great War: mostly politicians, but not exclusively.

weilawei ,
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@Ailantd I love the way the light comes in on this. :ablobcatheart:

dillyd , to random
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    weilawei ,
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    @dillyd 😂 🤣

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

    weilawei ,
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    @lowqualityfacts I'm getting the popcorn for this one.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "Just how outsourced is Boeing’s production? Almost two weeks after the Alaska Airlines blow-out, it was revealed that the door plug that blew out of the Alaska Airlines plane wasn’t actually produced in Wichita. It was produced in Malaysia, where workers’ concerns about speed of production and quality oversight are apt to have even less impact on their managers than in the United States."

    ~ Robert Reich

    https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-boeing-is-such-as-shitty-company

    weilawei ,
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    @wdlindsy 😂 🤣

    Self-certification is going great.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    's Top Trade Ally Delivers Surprise Blow to Putin's Fleet

    “Reliance Industries, the Indian operator of the world's largest refining complex, will not buy loaded onto tankers of Russia's biggest shipping company, a report says, in the latest blow to Moscow's efforts to sell its vital export.”
    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-india-oil-sovcomflot-reliance-industries-sanctions-1881741

    weilawei ,
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    @GottaLaff That's a very interesting move, given BRICS. Curious to see where this goes.

    weilawei ,
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    @moondog548 Lol yep. But that other guy in the picture. Hot damn.

    That right there is a leader. Zelenskyy is fighting for the people of Ukraine.

    Zelenskyy isn't wasting money on suits--he's showing up in a sweatshirt and doing what needs to be done. He speaks plainly and honestly, which is nearly unheard of for a politician.

    Real leadership.

    @lusterko

    weilawei , to random
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    "Life on benefits will not be an option under Labour, says Liz Kendall"

    She seems to have missed the point of having a government in the first place. The -entire- point of a government is to provide benefits to the people. That's why we bother with them in the first place.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/04/life-on-benefits-under-labour-will-not-be-an-option-says-liz-kendall

    weilawei , to random
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    It was really tough, but I picked my fantasy sportsball finally.

    President: @chargrille
    VP: @mekkaokereke
    Staff: @the_etrain
    DCI: @blair_fix
    STEM: @pluralistic
    OMB: @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
    SBA: @carnage4life
    CEA: @FluentInFinance
    UN Ambassador: @LALegault
    Trade: @Moira
    DNI: @alissaazar
    EPA: @ajsadauskas

    1/2

    weilawei OP ,
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    DHS: @Gigi
    VA: @glightly
    Education: @StillIRise1963
    Energy: @helenczerski
    Transportation: @glightly
    HUD: @QasimRashid
    HHS: @hannu_ikonen
    Labor: @MikeDunnAuthor
    Commerce: @amydiehl
    Agriculture: @ajsadauskas
    Interior: @msquebanh
    Attorney General: @GottaLaff
    Defense: @Lightfighter
    Treasury: @scottsantens
    State: @RustyBertrand

    2/2

    weilawei OP ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor I love your snippets of history about different figures in the labor movement. I really look forward to those.

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    weilawei ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor That's about the sum of it, yep.

    GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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    "The lawyers who voided Elon 's $56 billion compensation as excessive on Friday sought a record a $6 billion legal fee, payable in the electric car maker's stock.

    "We recognize that the requested fee is unprecedented in terms of absolute size," the three law firms said in a filing with the Court of Chancery in Delaware.

    The fee works out to an hourly rate of $288,888, they said."

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/legal-team-who-voided-musks-tesla-pay-seek-fee-worth-595-bln-2024-03-01/

    weilawei ,
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    @GottaLaff I'm wondering what this fee works out to, with risk taken into account (hoping for the 2 numbers to calculate it).

    Would be willing to guesstimate (or data if you know offhand) of what you think:

    the probability of enforcement (from 0 to 100% of total cases, whether investigated or not) might look like, and

    the average fine imposed in excessive compensation cases?

    If not, that's fine; it seems like you might have a familiarity with the history of it, so I thought I'd ask.

    weilawei ,
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    @GottaLaff No worries. Thank you. 🙏

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has just released the results of a nationwide (US) survey about Christian nationalism. Key findings:

    • Roughly three in ten Americans qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers.

    • Residents of red states are significantly more likely than those in blue states to hold Christian nationalist beliefs.


    /1

    https://www.prri.org/research/support-for-christian-nationalism-in-all-50-states/

    weilawei ,
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    @wdlindsy Shoot, we're (MA) outdone by OR.

    Portland-itis is real.

    https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1919

    Ailantd , to random
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    We should turn all cargo ships into sailboats again. Almost zero emissions plus having to wait a month for your amazon order would incentive local business.

    But above all that: Just imagine the amazing look of that beasts.

    weilawei ,
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    @Ailantd @MichaelPorter @notsoloud being done, as we speak.

    "Enabling a vessel to be blown along by the wind, rather than rely solely on its engine, could hopefully eventually reduce a cargo ship's lifetime emissions by 30%."

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66543643

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Thanks .

    AFP—'s enriched uranium stockpile 27 times limit of 2015 deal: UN nuclear watchdog

    weilawei ,
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    @GottaLaff That attack on Natanz really worked out well for us. Suuuuuper effective in the long run. /s

    Much better would have been to stick to the deal promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy by Iran. Probably would have helped stabilize the region, too.

    whitequark , to random
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    piracy is a moral imperative

    weilawei ,
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    @whitequark A large chunk of engineering would come to a grinding halt if it weren't for Sci-Hub and Library Genesis.

    JSharp1436 , to random
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    🔴 launches new Info-Psych Special Operation (IPSO) called against

    Part of involves foreign journalists, media persons and to justify 's aggression and cover the from positions favorable to the

    🇺🇦 🇺🇦
    🇵🇱 🇮🇩

    https://ukranews.com/en/news/984815-russia-launches-new-operation-against-ukraine-defense-intelligence

    weilawei ,
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    @JSharp1436 Seems conveniently chosen to bury Perun's coverage, which is generally pretty critical of Russia.

    https://youtube.com/@PerunAU

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Trump's argument in a nutshell:

    I may well have crimed.

    I may have crimed big-time.

    I may have couped and insurrected.

    But if I'm running as a candidate in an election, that means I have a get-out-of-jail card and I shouldn't go to trial for any of my crimes.

    Which I can, in any case, erase and cause to vanish when I'm elected.

    https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/trump-says-he-shouldnt-be-tried-with

    weilawei ,
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    @wdlindsy Treating outright Nazis with the same kid gloves as "political actors" (re: the article's comments about DOJ guidelines) is some real BS.

    MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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    Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.

    weilawei ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor The violent approach sure worked out well. /s

    futurebird , to random
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    Apple’s journaling app! (If I’m trapped in a “walled garden” might as well check out the plants.) The app uses location, photo and other data to suggest events to journal about— The photos help jog memory & make writing less daunting.

    I hope that more apps make use of the api — although wouldn’t it be nice if it were an open “event” protocol instead? (and if one could export journals to, tumblr)

    I think this app could really help many people I know with memory and organization issues.

    weilawei ,
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    @futurebird this. protocol > platform

    email: the original federated protoocol.

    rbreich , to random
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    The price of Huggies diapers went up 6% between April- June 2023.

    Inflation, right? Wrong.

    Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies, reported that the cost to make its products fell by $75 million.They took the money and ran, banking $168 million in operating profits in Q3 2023.

    Now, new research shows that corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2023. During the 40 years prior to the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth.

    weilawei ,
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    @rbreich 💀

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🙄 “House unveil articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
    The House Homeland Security Committee is moving forward with two articles of impeachment. The White House has called the GOP effort “unconstitutional.” https://breaking.iavian.net/article/355851

    weilawei ,
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    @GottaLaff 502 bad gateway.

    nickwedig , to random
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    TIL the guy who created the Ultima videogame series claims to own a chunk of the Moon.

    In 1993 Richard Garriott bought two space exploration craft still on the Moon from an auction at Sotheby's, and he claims that legally gives him ownership over the section of lunar terrain they surveyed.

    As @ZachWeinersmith 's book A City on Mars succinctly puts it "No space lawyer we talked to shared this view."

    weilawei ,
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    @nickwedig lmao what a kook.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Harsh.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    weilawei ,
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    @lowqualityfacts So, the Leffie Tower.

    Stolen from: https://sedulia.blogs.com/photos/places_now/eiffel-upside-down.html

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